Feed suggestions for VERY stressy, hot, spooky nutcase

for a little feed, a bit of bran, damped, with a little non molassed sugar beet pulp, there's no feed value in that but they enjoy it and its bulky and fibrous.

i feed black oats to mine, but it has no effect on them unless i give too much, and i vary it with a bit of bran and sugar beet, plus vits etc
 
wonkey_donkey said:
Good hay (not haylage) fed adlib and no hard feed at all should do the trick.

No reason why a hyper horse needs any hard feed if getting plenty of decent hay.

Offer a good quality vit/min lick if you want reassurance your horse is getting everything he needs.
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^^ This ^^

Take him off ALL feed and switch haylage to hay. If horse is hyper he doesn't need more feeding of bucket feed, needs less, preferably none.
 
Andiamo said:
@ FrodoBeutlin - Cavalor Pianissimo - Here's some info from their website. I can't find an actual ingredients list though? Ooops, just found a nutritional analysis - it is 30% starch! , therefore might not be an option....I want to keep starch low since it breaks down into sugar. I've been told to keep it under 10% for a spooky nervous sensitive horse.
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Ah, that's a pity about the starch. When J. Hoffmann came to our yard he said he uses the Pianissimo for some of their hottest stallions and really rates it.
 
Simplistic reply (I know nothing about Spanish horses as you can tell!) would be it's not getting anywhere enough work and by work I would say take it out of the school and take it hacking for a few hours as many times a week as you can instead of just in the school, give it a chance to relax while it works. We used to sometimes have this problem with the hunters and pointers that they were so hyper before hunting/racing started, anything was fair game when you had to sit tight but as long as they had enough work to occupy them they'd be fine, we'd be doing at least three hours before hunting started properly.

Turnout and soaked hay for me, nothing else bar a mineral lick but I do recommend brewers yeast with some plain chaff if you have to feed something.
 
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rlhnlk said:
My TB is on equillibruim low and brewers yeast, she's a different horse since she went onto these - much more rational about life in general than she was when she was on other feeds. The starch is really low and the brewers yeast helps with her gut. I don't need to feed a lot of it either for her weight to stay the same.
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Sorry for butting in on this post, could you advise me on how much brewers yeast and whether you feed the tablet form from the health food shop or can you get it in the powdered form? Only asking as I also have a little p/b Luso who even now at age 15 struggles to cope with life and I feed him soaked grass nuts or Simple System feeds, hay (sniff of haylage send him potty). Totally agree with tristar, he loves nothing better than to have "snuggles", :o :o I put my arms around him and within seconds there is very heavy breathing and he is so relaxed, his breeder did say that he likes a one to one relationship not to be one of many.

Have found it very interesting to read that they have an intolerance to sugars, I s'pose that makes sense as apparently (so I have ben told) they are fed on straw in their native land.
 
Haven't read all the posts in detail , so sorry if any of this repeats what others have said.

I have a PRE who I've owned since he was castrated and imported at 5. He's as hot as they come and I learned very early on to feed him very little and certainly no hard feed.

In the last 6 weeks or so I have changed him to Dengie's Hi Fi Mollasses Free, which has 2.5% sugar and 1.5% starch (figures have been provided by Tracy at Dengie who was very helpful)

He still only gets half a scoop per feed, hay and absolutely no carrots or sugary treats.

He still powers on like anything. BUT you have to really work these horses, unless its the exceptional odd one, they thrive on physical AND mental stimulation. So anything that makes them think makes them happy.
 
my mare can be quite excitable. Now all i feed her is ad lib hay at night a small feed once a day of half a scoop of happy hoof with magnesium oxide added dampened with a little water and turned out through the day. Our fields are still too wet to turn out 24/7 but another few weeks and hopefully she will be out properly. If you thought this didnt supply all the vitamins and minerals you could add a general supplement to be sure but my mare looks great on this and still has more than enough energy to work.
 
Glad to hear that he is on soaked hay but how long for? Needs to be soaked at least 12 hours to remove sugar. Also could you keep him off grass for a few days to see if that makes any difference? Talk to people who keep their horses barefoot. They are very hot on diets and would be a great help to you. The people who post on here include Oberon, Brucea and CPtrayes. I think CPtrayes rehabbed a pre horse who was very sensitive to sugar.
 
i feed mine graze on.
very cheap its just grass so nothing to upset anyone there. they can have oil or fibre nuts added if needed.
wont heat them up or anything.
minerals and vit in powder addition
 
I haven't read all the replies - sorry. I feed my stressy WB Allen and Page Sugar and Cereal intolerant feed and Carob kibble (locut bean) hi fi lite and a cup of micronised linseed and magnesium oxide as I do for all mine just incase they are deficient.

If I feel he needs it I give him RelaxMe - by First Horse as a calmer for a period. He only gets ad lib hay on top of this and regulated carrots - ie. no more than 2 small ones per day.

It's worked for my boy. Good luck.
 
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